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I am all on board with letting people know when open source is a bit too aligned with major companies or is somehow compromised.
I have no intent or need to use Omarchy.
This sites list of YouTubers to shun however is a bit too "purity test" for me. The reasons listed are, let's say extremely tepid in many cases.
I've never heard Jeff Geerling talk about any issue other than homelab stuff like hardware pricing and availability. His religious and personal views were not apparent to me at all.
I watched the Louis Rossmann video mentioned with the CO State Rep, and Louis was respectful and platformed this individuals commentary on the subject of privacy issues for a long time in the video. Generally Rossmann seems to criticize the living hell out of politicians left, right, and center.
I guess all I am saying is... Use whatever products you do or don't want to for your own reasons but, I disagree with the concept that I should brigade specific creators because they support Open Source but not 100% of my particular basket of other issues. We need Open Source to grow and need to reach out to diverse groups who can find value in it.
I will continue to listen to both Craft Computing Jeff (as far left as it is possible to be on social and gender issues) and Jeff Geerling (who is apparently conservative on these same issues) because I'm listening to them talk about homelab stuff, not telling me who to vote for etc.
Omarchy isn't even good. It shouldn't even be called a distro, it does nothing new. It's basically a script installer for arch
Sure, and Ubuntu is just a script installer for the kernel. Dear lord, is it a requirement to be so insufferable and asocial when you use Linux? My work PC is Linux, I hope I manage to not succumb to the incredible urge to lack any and all empathy, assume my way of using a product is the only correct way, and pretending that fiddling for hours with your system is a sane thing for everyone to want.
It’s funny that you’re complaining about people “lacking empathy” for hating on a known fascist.
The real empathic move is to confront & destroy fascism.
The most privileged response I've ever read. Good for you for having no one in your inner circle that is affected by fascism but it really sucks for the rest of us.
You're listing some liberal identitarians as leftists here... 🤦♂️
Literally don't care what they are. Not relevant to their FOSS or general technology content.
"If 9 people sit down at a table with 1 Nazi without protest, there are 10 Nazis at the table."
"Congrats", I guess. 🤦♂️ Is it comfortable there? 🙄 Technology isn't apolitical: atomic bombs weren't, AI isn't, and centainly it's the same for that pos.
There's still a difference between someone who holds regressive views privately and someone advocating for ethnic cleansing.
First case I can just stop engaging with them, the other we need to push back publicly
Sadly, this whole scheme has been resumed into "Don't use Omarchy because they are nazis!" -- "Oh? And where you got that idea from?" -- "B-b-because It's what they are!". It's nothing else than a shit-flinging contest, with no logical/coherent reasoning other than typical emotional/impulse-driven reactions for the sake of "feeling included".
Also, it's sad to see at how this community went downhill fast because of politics, and on how the mods shrug at these posts -- we are, indeed... reddit now.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/
Yikes. So much yikes. I'll be a bit more invested now in deplatforming. I just thought the vibes were off in his NetworkChuck promotion.
This goes beyond that.
Did you even look at the evidence people always provide when talking about DHH? Or are you saying advocating for ethnic cleansing isn't nazi? Ime people love to pretend that leftists are just making shit up when most of the time we show the receipts, which are even in the link in the original post here.
It's 2026 and there still are bozos feigning to be apolitical. Incredible. Literally, because the same phenomenon is happening for example among farmers who voted Republican and had their faces eaten.
Also
You're on lemmy.ML How clueless you are?
The President of the USA is a known pedophile who is murdering and kidnapping foreign heads of state and attempting to force the governments of other countries to do what he says.
Being apolitical has always been somewhat shortsighted, but now is definitely not the time.
child didnt even look at ANY of the evidence . AND THEN when they want to criticize the evidence presented , doesnt link ANY counter evidence .
ENLIGHTENED CENTRISM©®™ strikes again. BOTH sides are evil Mmmkay!? Mmmmkay! Ignorance Is Bliss©®™
No idea why you're negative on the votes, the centrism reeks of deceit.
At this point, Every time I hear someone say something about Reddit it's in the same breath as something hate-crime-y or something smallminded like complaining of politics in their hobby.
Like, "Bitch, please... Reddit is just a room of people, our communities are what we make of them, if you're complaining about the room then you're either in the wrong room or you're actively trying to make discourse worse."
I'm in here for a chance at descentalized community, and for salon, but I keep bumping into these side-shaved specimen masquerading as techies, trying to make space for the loudest white supremacists in any scene. It's fucking exhausting.